Playwright, actor, and director, Cameroonian Edouard Elvis Bvouma is also a novelist and short story writer. He has developed his work through multiple writing residencies in Africa and in Europe, and his plays have been read and staged in Cameroon and elsewhere in Africa, as well as in France, notably at France Culture and at Avignon Theatre Festival (Avignon IN). Bvouma has received multiple awards, including best playwright of 2008 from the African competition, Grands Prix Afrique du Théâtre Francophone. A la guerre comme à la Gameboy garnered prizes from Unpublished Works from Africa and Overseas and from the Society of Dramatic Composers and Writers (SACD) in 2016. He won the Radio France Internationale Theatre Prize in 2017 with La poupée barbue. Both plays are now published in French by Lansman Editeurs. In War as in Games was translated to English by Heather Jeanne Denyer for a reading produced by the Martin E. Segal Thaetre Center for the 2018 PEN World Voices Festival in New York City.